The winter diet of gentoo penguins at Marion Island

Title: The winter diet of gentoo penguins at Marion Island
Creator: LaCock, G D, Hecht, Thomas, Klages, N
Subject: To be catalogued
Date: 1984
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/448453
Identifier: vital:74731
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1080/00306525.1984.9634486
Description: The diet of Gentoo Penguins Pygoscelis papua at Marion Island was studied during September 1982. Samples were obtained from 64 birds using a stomach-pump. Fish accounted for 70% of the diet by wet weight, and crustaceans 30%. Fishes occurred in 72% of the samples, crustaceans in 75%, cephalopods in 13%, and molluscs in 8%. Cephalopods and molluscs did not form a significant proportion of any single sample. Harpagifer georgianus was the predominant fish in the diet (92,7% of otoliths recovered), and Nauticaris marionis was the only crustacean.
Format: 3 pages, pdf
Language: English
Relation: Ostrich, LaCock, G.D., Hecht, T. and Klages, N., 1984. The winter diet of gentoo penguins at Marion Island. Ostrich, 55(4), pp.188-191, Ostrich volume 55 number 4 188 191 1984 1727-947X
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